today being the first day of school, was like the first day of hell -_-

a place where i am not making any money, have to get up really early unwillingly (i willingly got up ridiculously early daily to go work for my dad selling SEA CUCUMBER and i cannot wake up early to go to uni, the irony) and feel so alone in a place teeming with people.

but! one thing that i learnt is why cough medicine makes you loopy.

during pharmacology, my lecturer (who by the way, has done an oprah and slimmed down twice her size from last year.  O_O) was talking to us about side effects and one of the reasons why cough medicine can make  you high is because it contains codeine which is basically, a form of narcotic (correct me if I'm wrong, my pharmacist reader )

Oooo.

no wonder some people get high on prescription drugs

after following dad and aunt around hawking sea cucumber at jaya one i noticed a few things at work.

Having connections is extremely important to be successful in life. sometimes it's not what you know, it's who you know. and there are some people who make it just by being friends with a powerful person who can extend his hand to do many things for you. it makes life much harder for people who work for everything they have with sheer grit and determination, but then you can also say this: those people aren't smart enough to make the necessary connections are they? it's like studying smart and studying hard. the people who rely solely on hard work would be studying very hard whereas the people who make the right moves with the right people would be the ones who are studying smart.

Sad, but such is life.

I've also had the chance to come across this power couple who bought a couple of kilos of sea cucumber of us the other day. it was rare for me to see a husband of 40 very much in love with his wife and for me to see a lady not typical of that of a power couple either (usually you would see a strong-weak husbandwife dynamic ie. macho man followed by a trailing meek woman or a scary looking sour faced lady with a gentle obliging husband). These two were loving and kind with each other as well as other people around them. They helped an old lady they didn't know carry her groceries across the walkway. It's nice to see rich successful people act like that.

having the gift of the gab is also a talent and CAN be learned, contrary to popular belief (and what i thought). it's all about confidence.

hopefully i would have learned enough by the end of my stint as free labourer to sustain myself in business in the future.

The trouble with paradise is that everyone eventually gets sick of it.

Why else would girls create drama?

That's because if life were smooth sailing and everyone is happy, life would be fucking boring. to know happy, first you must know what is sad.

i never believe in the old adage where by people say to me "Oh we never argue".

Someone used to say that to me once about their previous relationship and i plainly thought it was fucking bullshit even though i very politely held back my words.

why else would men cheat on their very nice, sweet wives who would wait on them day after day preparing their dinner and sewing tattered lapels back onto their husband's coats? because they know very well that their wives can't live without them, that's why.

once you know something for sure, you take it for granted. it works the same way in homework, in the office and in the relationship.